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title: "Cost Guides: What Web, Ecommerce & AI Work Costs in Australia | Croissant & Baguette"
description: "What a website, a Shopify store and AI automation actually cost in Australia in 2026. Real bands, real running costs, and real projects itemised line by line."
url: "https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/"
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# Guides

https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/

What a website, a Shopify store and AI automation actually cost in Australia in 2026. Real bands, real running costs, and real projects itemised line by line.

## Straight answers about money.

What things cost in Australia, written for the person paying rather than for search engines. Every guide has the market's bands, what moves the price, what we charge, and at least one real project itemised line by line.

**Quick answer**

Every figure on these pages excludes GST.

- **Website** $5,000–15,000
- **Store** $56 a month, plus the build
- **Automation** $5,000–15,000 a process
- **To run** $0–200 a month

## Because "it depends" is not an answer.

Ask what a website costs and you get a range so wide it tells you nothing, or a form that promises a quote and delivers a phone call. We publish our prices on every service page, so writing these was mostly a matter of showing our working: what each band actually buys, what moves a number within a range, what the thing costs to run once it exists, and what real projects came to, line by line. Where a figure comes from somebody else we say who and when. Where it comes from our own books we round it and say so. Where we cannot source it, it is not here.

## Three of them, so far.

- **Website costs.** What a website costs in Australia in 2026, by band, plus the monthly bill nobody quotes properly and two real builds itemised.
- **Shopify costs.** What Shopify charges in Australian dollars, what a store costs to build, the app bill nobody budgets for, and one real store itemised.
- **AI automation costs.** What it costs to take one process off your team, why the hours matter more than the tiers, and three systems itemised including our own.

## Or skip the reading.

Tell us what you need in two lines and we will give you a number and a date, or tell you honestly that we are not the right people for it.